Dartmouth Club of the Year

The Dartmouth Club of Southern Californiawas honored last fall as theDartmouth Club of the Year for 1970-71.The following account by the secretarydescribes some of the activities of thisoutstanding alumni group, one of Dartmouth'slargest.

There are some 1,100 Dartmouth alumni living in the area encompassed by the Dartmouth Club of Southern California, of whom about 300 are active enough to attend our functions, pay their dues, or correspond (sometimes irately) with the Secretary. Our Board of Directors meets monthly to make policy decisions, exchange ideas, and maintain communications, and we have a monthly luncheon or other group function usually attended by about 30 alumni and friends or wives. We work closely with our Enrollment Liaison Officer and our Tucker Foundation Liaison Officer and assist them in their projects. The five to seven Dartmouth undergraduates currently student-teaching in Compton under the Tucker Foundation are always invited to (and frequently attend) our lunches and dinners in the hope that communication between younger and older sets will be mutually productive.

Our meeting places vary from one event to the next to encourage more alumni to attend—travel distances in Southern California are a definite problem not faced in other parts of the country.

Contact with alumni is maintained primarily by monthly notices mailed locally to dues-payers ($10 per year) and by occasional letters mailed from Hanover to all Southern California alumni.

Recent events indicative of our club activities include a tour of Los Angeles Harbor; Dartmouth Day at Santa Anita racetrack, which raised $270 for the Southern California Scholarship Fund; and our annual dinner aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach with President and Mrs. John Kemeny as guests. We are looking forward to our sponsorship of this year's California Alumni Seminar, September 15-17, at Kellogg West on the Cal Poly Campus in Pomona.

The incoming and outgoing presidents of the Dartmouth Club of Southern Californiaare shown with fellow officers after April elections. From left are Treasurer RandolphAires '57; President Nick Carter '4l; Secretary H. Flint Ranney '56; Joseph Scott'5B, vice president and enrollment director; Edward Linsley '46, outgoing president;and Vice President Wilburn Durousseau '58.